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Capacity planning lab

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Break a capacity plan before production does

The control room ties growth, storage, traffic, fleet survival, headroom, and cost together. Scenario buttons make the trade-off visible immediately, so this walk records the changed outputs rather than just the sliders.

Live production evidence. Discovery used Codex computer control; recording used the cross-runtime capture contract so Claude can rerun the same script.

  1. 01

    The baseline has numbers, not adjectives

    Opened the capacity-planning control room and moved to the operational scenarios.

    The baseline quantifies users, replicated storage, scenario RPS, surviving instances, headroom, and monthly cost in one model.

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    Capacity planning baseline and scenario controls
  2. 02

    A launch more than doubles demand

    Selected "Launch spike".

    The same fleet is challenged with 2.2× demand; the scenario output rises from 87.5K to 192.5K RPS, making the capacity risk concrete.

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    Capacity plan under the launch spike scenario
  3. 03

    The plan survives with one zone gone

    Selected "Zone loss".

    The model removes a third of the fleet while keeping peak traffic, so the learner can read the new surviving-instance and headroom consequences before touching production.

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    Capacity plan after losing one availability zone